I remain unsure how the 2013 Yankees won 85 games. They played in a division in which three other clubs had at least that many victories, and the Yanks got there despite consistently fielding lineups with Travis Hafner, Jayson Nix, Lyle Overbay, Chris Stewart and Vernon Wells. CC Sabathia was bad, Phil Hughes was worse. Joba Chamberlain was in full freefall.
The 2013 Yankees had 3¹/u2082 really good players and two were relievers, Mariano Rivera and David Robertson. Robinson Cano was terrific and a late-season cameo by Alfonso Soriano proved valuable. I watched that injury-ravaged group daily and was positive they were terrible, yet somehow they were not mathematically eliminated until five games remained in the season.